# gort
## Dutch
### Etymology

Variant of grut.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɣɔrt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: gort
* Rhymes: -ɔrt

### Noun

gort m (uncountable)
* pearl barley
* grit

#### Derived terms

* gortbeuling
* gortdroog
* gortenteller
* gortepap
* gortig
* gortketel
* gortpellerij
* gortrijst
* gortzak
* havergort
* parelgort
* van haver tot gort kennen

#### Related terms

* grut

#### Descendants

* → Sranan Tongo: groto

### See also

* gerst

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

gort
* second-person plural preterite of gären

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔr̥t/
* Rhymes: -ɔr̥t

### Noun

gort n (genitive singular gorts, no plural)
* boasting, bragging
    Synonyms: grobb, mont, raup, skrum

#### Related terms

* gorta (“to boast, to brag”)
* gortari (“boaster, braggart”)

## Irish
### Etymology

From Old Irish gort, from Proto-Celtic *gortos (compare Welsh garth), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰórtos (“enclosure, yard”) (compare Latin hortus, Old English geard). Doublet of garraí.

### Pronunciation

* (Munster) IPA: /ɡʌɾˠt̪ˠ/
* (Ulster) IPA: /ɡɔɾˠt̪ˠ/

### Noun

gort m (genitive singular goirt, nominative plural goirt)
* field
* (in phrases) orchard
* (standing) crop
* the Ogham letter ᚌ (g)

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
gort
goirt
vocative
a ghoirt
a ghorta
genitive
goirt
gort
dative
gort
goirt
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an gort
na goirt
genitive
an ghoirt
na ngort
dative
leis an ngort don ghort
leis na goirt :

#### Synonyms

* garraí
* páirc

#### Derived terms

* fíonghort (“vineyard”)
* scuab eich ghoirt (“field horsetail”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 128

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gort”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Scottish Gaelic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔrˠʃt̪/

### Etymology 1

From Old Irish gorte, from goirt (“starved”). Cognate with Irish gorta.

#### Noun

gort f (genitive singular gorta, plural gortan)
* famine

##### Derived terms

* gearradh-gort
* Gort Mhòr

### Etymology 2

Derivative of Etymology 3 ("field, enclosure") via a change in gender.

#### Noun

gort f (genitive singular gorta)
* the letter G in the Ogham alphabet: ᚌ

#### References

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gort”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

### Etymology 3

From Old Irish gort, from Proto-Celtic *gortos (compare Welsh garth), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰórtos (“enclosure, yard”) (compare Latin hortus, Old English geard). Doublet of gàrradh.

#### Noun

gort m (genitive singular goirt, plural goirt)
* (Islay) field
    Synonyms: achadh, pàirc, raon
* enclosure
* (standing) crop

#### References

* MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “gort”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.